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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1909)
THE MOIINING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OKEGON. SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1909. Established 1S7V Published Duly Except Monday by THE J. S. BELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per yew . ..;.S7.00 B carrier, per month & - WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By n, per year, in advance., ... U0 i Entered as secondlass matter July 30, 1906, at the pottoffice at Astoria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of Marco 3, 1879. , Orders for the" delivering of The Morning Aitoriaa to either residence r.t. of business mar b made by postal card or tnrougn teiepnone, Aay Irregularity in delivery should be Immediately reported to the office of publication. . TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon and Washington Rain or mow in west; snow is east portion wanner, ; THE PERSONAL EQUATION. It may be well for us all to remem ber that the personal equation is to cut its customary figure in the suc cesses and failures of the year 1909. What of questionable, negative, ap parent, fault, or evil, besets us, must be recognized, amended, subdued, ' guarded and wrought against; and all of the better, healthier, happier and cleverer qualities that mark our make op, must be cherished, cultivated, di rected and conserved, as much to our own distinct and lasting benefit, as to the comfort, convenience, pleasure and satisfaction of those whom we serve, associate with and owe our best and truest offices. This not a sermon; it is a simple business talk. We are all disposed to forget, per bans ism ore, the relation we bear -personally to every engagement and iaslc we assume; we do not often ana lyze our own natures, measure our own capacities for good and HI; and as qften, fail signally, when we might have succeeded, on the realization of our weakness, our unfit tempers, and foolish prejudices, habits and inclina tions. We are far more dependent upon ourselves that we seem to under stand, and an occassional course of self-investigation lends ns genuine strength and high purpose, and ener gizes us, in the attainment of a sound er poise and honester standing with ourselves and our fellows. "No man liveth unto himself alone." We cannot escape our responsibili ties to the other man; we may think we can, but it is merely an empty- and pitiful assumption at the best, and primarily unworthy of us. We must dig into our own secret being and oust the coarse, the irritating, the false and the hateful, and at the same time ascertain the temperamental decen cies and graces and make them do . their incalculable part in the general scheme of work and association and procedure we usually call LIFE. sense of the term, all these years.has been as much a matter of astonish ment to the visitor here, as of cha grin to ourselves; and the work of Dr. Frank Vaughn and his associa tes, in this behalf, is entitled to in stant and generous recognition and to a sportsman-like rally that shall at once put the laches out of sight and mind, and put Astoria to the very front of the high-class ports and clubs that boast such accessories. With everything at hand in the way of natural facilities that can be de sired in our bays and the lordly Col umbia; with shops and highly trained experts to build our own craft; with boating season that is simply in comparable for comfort and delight, with superb water courses every where about us, and a clever group of people skilled in the sport, and with wealth enough to cover its last latitude of indulgence, there is no rea son on earth why Astoria should not leap to the fore with her new club and do some record making begining with the 1909 Regatta. PAY HIM BETTER There is no salary in all the land we desire to see raised so much as that of the President of the United States; not even our own. It is high time we were doing the decent thing by this great office and officer; we are not caring who happens to be in the place that has nothing to do with the pro position of putting the place on the plane of other and similar posts throughout the wirld. Our Presi dents are the poorest paid servants in the service of mankind, consider ing everything and comparing the ex alted duties and the relative import ance of the dignity. Pay him $100,000. The country has grown to that mark; and pay him more as it grows great- Be decent. and sacrifice. It is not fair; it is not in accord with the traditions of the business, and we are in the way, of protesting against the simplicity and humdrumncss of the episodes at hand. We are not at all anxious for the death of a single mariner, God knows but, if these vessels must come ashore, why not do it with the old-time snap and hurrah and risk? It must be dis gusting the very sailors themselves to go through a wreck so "flat, stale and unprofitable." How can they ever face their grand-children with these pointless, pithless tales of the high- sea and low-lying lands and of wrecks in which no man suffers, nor loses, nor jeopardizes anything? Why the kids ill despise them.- The reporters, quick and eager as they are to invest such tales with vim and verve, and a verity ail their own, are not able to even fake a readable story, as there are not real facts enough upon which to predicate a few alluring lies and keep within sight of the actualities. It is getting so that a shipwreck-tale from out this field is as "punk" as the Legislative correspondence from Sa lem, and as common as a murder yarn from Portland. Bill LETTER DIRECT Frill TKLLINQ OF LAST AND LARQ EST ITEMS OF NATIONAL CONCERN THERE. SOFT, EASY AND SAFE. ANOTHER GOOD THING. Astoria is to be credited with one more excellent achievement, in the es tablishment of the Astoria Motor Boat Club. In its way it is exactly as important and gratifying as the set ting up of her splendid athletic as sociation; both are to be commended, supported and maintained for the good of the young and the enjoyment of the old. The fact that Astoria lias been with out a reputable, recognized and or- Tbe coast line between Tillamook Head, in Oregon, and Gray's Harbor, In Washington, is becoming famous for the softness, ease and safety with which ships may be piled upon it; there does not seem to be any danger whatever in the procedure, the three last ships to utilize the beaches, the Peter Iredale, Galena and the Alice, having slipped up on the sands quiet ly, comfortably, securely, without loss of a spar, a man, a boat, nor anything of value, being subsequently dismant led at leisure and left to bury them selves in the smooth sands at the due convenience of time and nature. Even the newspapers are bereft of the "thrills' usually attendant upon such performances; their stories are flat, mere dry and spiritless facts, mi nus color, life and hazard, and un- ightened by the touch of romance ganized boat-club, in the strictest or the snap of personal risk, bravery TSI BARERONIAN ASTORIA'S POPULAR THEATRE THE DONALD STOCK CO. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday "TENNESSEE PARTNER" A four A ct Western Comedy Drama Illustrated Song " 'Neath the Old Cherry Tree Sweet Marie" X Prices, Evening, 15c, 25c, 35; Matinee, 10c and 25c BATHINQ AT DIEPPE. Whtn th Comitw d Boign Trltd It In th Y.ir 1306. The Comtesse de Bolgne la ber mem oirs gtvea an account of a rtslt she paid tn 1S08, which Is Interesting in Tiew of the position Dieppe now bolJs among French watering places. "The poverty of the luhabltants," she says, "was frightful. The Eng lishman, as they called htm (and fur them he was worm than the devil), was cruising Incessantly before their empty harbor. With much difficulty a boat was able to escape from time to time and go fishing, always at the risk of being captured by the foreigner or confiscated upon the return Journey It the tWesoopes of the watchers had seen It approach a vessel. As for the comforts arranged for the convenience of bathers which Dieppe bus since organised, they were nonexistent at that time. My brother was able to Cnd a little covered cart. and with great trouble and great ex pense, notwithstanding the universal poverty, a man was hired to lead the horses down to the sea and two wo men to go Into the sea with me. These preparations raised the pub lic surprise and curiosity to such s pitch that my first bath was watched by a crowd on the shore. My servants were asked If I had been bitten by s mad dug. "I aroused extreme pity as I went by, and it was thought that I was being taken down to be drowned. An old gentleman called on my father to point ont to him that he was assuming a great responsibility In permitting so rash an act It can hardly be Imag ined that the Inhabitants of a sea shore could be so efrr.Id of the sea. "But at that time the people of Dieppe were chiefly occupied In keep ing out of sight of It and In protecting themselves from the disasters which they feared the sea might bring, so that It was for them nothing more than a means of annoyance and suffer ing. It Is curious to think that ten years later bathers were arriving In hundreds, that special arrangements were made for their convenience and that sea bathing of every kind went on without producing any astonish ment in the neighborhood. "I bare thus attempted to point out that the custom of sea bathing, which Is now so universal, is comparatively recent In France, for Dieppe was the first place where It began." NEW YORK, Jan.-War is about to be waged on New York' pride and joy, -The Great White Way," that section of Broadway extending north ward from Herald Square for a dot en blocks or more and comprising the city's principal hotel, theatre and res taurant district. It would be more accurate to say .that the war is being directed against the characteristic feature of the world-famous street for the attack which is being made by the Municipal Art Society on Broad way's brilliant illumination is based on the fact that it is too brilliant. Ac cording to the censors of municipal affairs artistic who compose the so ciety, the huge electric signs contrl buting to the glow which turns night into something more attractive than day in this part of the city not only violate the dictates of the canons of art but arc a menace in case of fires and likely to be themselves the cause of serious conflagrations. It is point ed out that in the recent Herald Square Theatre fire the firemen were hampered in their work by many wires feeding the big electric signs that covered the front of the building. While the agitation that has been started is likely to lead to some re striction in size and arrangement of electric signs it is highly improbable v. Vii... .:ti ....i....: . ..... I .!. ..vn ivt.vta mil Buifliiil i' ftlijr vhange that will rob the Great White Way of itt crowning glory or cause Broadway to be no longer "the street of a million lights." through the loan company. Upon the cashing of the check by the loan company, $J0Q i immediately deman ded if the borrower, who only gets $10 in hand, After just what state .N'cw York will pattern its anti-loan Uurk law remains to be seen, but It seems certain that some action will be taken. It is a long time since any foreign visitor to America has endeared him self, so quickly to New Yorkers at hat Gulielmo Ferrero, the eminent Itul tan historian, who is delivering a ter iet of historical lectures at Columbia University. Mr. Ferrcro who has taken up his residence at the Hole Astor, in the heart of the city' plea sure-seeking life, declares that there is beauty in New York "I giant sky scrapers although they outrage pre conceived European Ideas of archi tectural taste and that Broadway is the most brilliant and Interesting street in the world. After witnessing the New Year's Eve festivities in and about Longacre Square, he also gave it as hit opinion that the famous feasts of the ancient Romans were mere hand-outs compared to the gor geous surroundings and exquisite viands enjoyed by citucnt of the Am erican metropolis in their hotel pal aces. In fact the man who is recog nixed at the leading authority of the world In the life and history of an cient Rome intimates that that imper ial city was no more than a country village compared to twentieth cent ury New York, and the inhabitants of the city long accuttomed to hear ing their city abused by" visiting for eigners are naturally pleased over the appreciation expressed by the famous uanan scnoiar. BIG PAPER!! LE! SA Commencing Thursday Watch the Window Prices Whitman's Book Store TREE DWELLING ANTS. South American Insect That Acts at Plant Guardian. Ant defenders of plants and trees are soma of nature's pretty marvels. The Cecropla adenopus Is a remarka ble tree of south Brazil, widely dis tributed through the tropics. Its slen der trunk is crowned with long leaves at the ends of tbu branches. A few active ants run continually along the branches and the leaves, bat If the tree is shaken slightly an army of ants rushes out by small apertures ready for a savage assault on the in truder. The ant is the terrible guard ian that the tree has retained to pro tect it from its most formidable ene my, the leaf cutter nnt The defenders rarely leave their re treat, where they live on 'small whitish egg shaped bodies about one-twelfth of an inch long, known as Mueller's corpuscles. These are formed of deli cate tissue, rich In protelds and all, as rations for the garrison of defender ants to feed npon. The curious ar rangement by which entrance Is made to the hollow stem has been studied by W. Schlmper. Just above the point of insertion of each leaf extends nearly to the supe rior node a superficial groove, at whose end is a rounded depreswlon. There the tissue is tbin, like a diaphragm In a tube, and It also Is soft. The hole by which the nnt enters is always pierced at this spot The ants seem to have made their entrance through the groove originally because It was at the top. la the course of this plant's further development natural se lection augmented these natural ad vantages, so that finally the thin, fraO diaphragm as it exists today was de veloped. -Chicago Tribune. The women who proclaimed them selves suffragists and suffragettes and who have been very active here dur ing the past lew months, under the eadership of some of the female ag itators imported from F.ngtang.where they have succeeded in making things uncomfortable for members of Parlia ment and in providing extra labor for the police, are no longer to have things entirely their own way. Op position to their plans has taken form among other women who feci that the position of womankind generally on the subject of the ballot is likely to be misunderstood as a result of the claims of the suffrage advocates.They have organized a movement in oposi tion to the suffragists' demands undci the name of the National League for the Civil Education of Women with such prominent women as Mrs. Gil bert E. Jones, Mrs. Julian Heath, Miss Eleanor G. Hewett, Mn. Grover Cle veland, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder, Mrs. Rossi ter Johnson, Mrs. Hiram Sibley, Mrs. David H. Greer wife of the Bishop of New York, Miss Jcanette L. Gilder and Mrs. Sshuyler Van Rennsclaer among its officers, and are conducting an active campaign through the med ium of lectures and pamphlets to show that the great majority of wom en do not desire to vote; that they can accomplish reforms equally well with out the ballot. This flank movement seems to have somewhat dismayed the militant champions of ballot-box privileges and is rapidly enlisting the support of prominent women who feel that their sex is being discredited by the performance of the suffragette ag itators. What it claimed to be the greatest gathering of aged persons, since the days of the Jewish elders and the times of Methuselah took place thit week in New Vork't east side district The event wat the celebration of i sixtieth wedding anniversary on the part of a wife age eighty-five and a husband aged ninety. Aronnd the table were gathered one hundred and elghty-tevcn guests, whose total aget amounted to 14,960 years, or more than teven timet the length of the Christian Era. Compared to the age of a large number of the guestt those of the husband and wife teemed in significant. The average number of years to the credit of each perton present wat eighty, or just the four score alloted by the Bible as the ex treme age of man. Five of those pre lent, however, had passed the five score mark while thirty-one were ovev ninety ycart of age. The oldest guest had just passed hit one hundred and fourteenth birthday, two had teen one hundred and seven years, and two others one hundred and six. No less than teven persons in this notable gathering were in their ninety-ninth year, A feature of the celebration was the rendering of a spirited Rus sian dance called the Kozotsky by nimble youth aged one hundred and six. I Don't Diss This Chance Our Clearance Sale Is now on In full swing, and it you have not yet received your share of the bargains we advise you to do so soon before the best values arc picked out. ...Suits and flvG'rcoats;.. i The famous Ficheimcr Fishel Brand in our general stock has been cut 20percetit A few odds and ends are being sold at BELOW COST. Big Reductions in Underwear Sweaters and Sweater Coats, all high grade goods are being re duced from 20 to 30 per-cent Odds and Ends in Shoes We have some splendid bargains in shoes-odds and ends-that we desire to clean out will be sold at Below Cost Luu ton larrison PAZO OINTMENT it guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pilet in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50 cents. Probing of the loan shark evil has not stopped with the recent report of the Russell Sage foundation, which showed that in New York as high as 1756 per cent per annum was charged by the salary loan tribe. In every part of the country the agitation against this evil is being taken up, Information secured by M. B. Well ington of the Legal Aid Society of Chicago in preparation for a national organization equipped to pull part if not all the teeth of the loan shark, shows that one institution of a semi philanthropic kind in Cincinnati, call ed the Citizens Mortgage Loan Com pany, has succesbfully coped by com petition with the loan sharks. The method adopted by Massachusetts provides that an assignment of wages under $200 to be valid must have the consent of the wife but the loan shark has devised an ingenious plan to j evade that law. A man comes into the loan company to borrow $10. He executes a note for $212.25, the $2.25 being $2 for making the loan, author ized by statntc, and 25 cents for the interest, also a legal rate by being over $200, does not need the consent of his wife. A check is then drawn on a bank, payable to the order of the borrower, for $210. The borrower, not being able conveniently to iden tify himself at the bank at which the check is drawn, is advised to cash it The Pure Food Law. Secretary Wilson tavs. "One of the objects of the law is to inform the consumer of the prescence of certain narmtui drugs in medicines." Th law requires that the amount of chlo roform, opium, morphine, and other habit formi.ig drugs be stated on the label of each bottle. The manufac hirers of Chamberlains cough remedy nave always claimed that their reme dy did not contain any of these drugs, anu me irum oi inn ciaim is now fully proven, as no mention of them is made on the label. This remedy is not only one of the safest, but one of the best in use for coughs and colds. Its value has been oroven bevond question during Kit many years it has been in general use. For tale by rranic nan and leading druggists AMUSEMENTS. AstoriaTheatre SATURDAY January 23, 1908 Curtain 9:00 p. m. Chas. A. Miller. (Incl ' if Presents 'James A, Heme's Great American Home Play Shore Acres New in It's Fifteenth Year of Success With the Eminent Character Actor ARCHIE BOYD And the much talked of "Shore Acres" children The Greatest Ladies and Children's Play Ever Written . Prices 25c to $1.50 M.n's Outfitters FINANCIAL. First national Bank of Astoria DIRECTORS C: Jacob Kami W. F. McGregor G. C. Flavel J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon - . , pr: Capital. $100,000 Surplus ... ;. 25,000 Stockholders' Liability 100,000 ICNTAHLIMIIKII HH I 0- A BOWLBY, Pretident O. I. PETERSON, Vice-Pretident J. W. GARNER, Assistant CatbJer FRANK PATTON, Cashier ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $232,083 Transacts a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Tune Depot': Four Per Cent. Per Annum Eleventh and Duane Sis. . . . . . t Astoria, Oregon SCANDINAVIAN-A A E R I C A N SAVINGS BANK ASTORIA, OREGON OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercedes All Other Consideration.1' Parkerllouse Under levManagement On January 1st the Parker House will be re-opened under Management- of Durham OS. Dibble As a first class hotel We invite your patronage. Dining room guaranteed to be the best, conducted iu the city. Call and get our rates. Bar in Connection. Satisfaction Guaranteed. ohn Foi, Pret. V.L. Bishop, Sec Astoria 8av!na Bk Traaa. Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt. ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUP4CTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED v. , aiming Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS PURNIIHSD. Correspondence Solicited. . . Foot of Fomtfc Stmt